Xishuangbanna is located in the southernmost part of southern Yunnan, connected with the mountains and rivers of Laos and Myanmar, and close neighbors of Thailand and Vietnam.

Here is famous for the magical rainforest natural landscape and ethnic minority customs, she is beautiful, rich and magical, like a bright pearl inlaid in the southwest of China's frontier, the Lancang River runs through the north and south, after leaving the country, it is called the Mekong River, flows through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam 5 countries and then flows into the Pacific Ocean, known as the "Oriental Danube、,。

The scenic area includes three major scenic areas of Jinghong City, Menghai County Scenic Area and Mengla County Scenic Area, and there are several scenic spots in each piece, with a total area of more than 1,200 square kilometers.

The mountains in the area are undulating, the Lancang River and its tributaries run through the whole territory, due to the influence of the southwest and southeast monsoons, the climate characteristics of high temperature and rain have been formed, and there are mainly Dai people living here, including Jingpo, Hani, Brown, Keno, Lahu, Yao, Han and many other ethnic groups, inhabiting peacocks, Asian elephants, gibbons and other rare birds and beasts, growing reckless tropical rainforest and many rare, ancient, peculiar, endangered Xishuangbanna's unique kinds of strange grasses.

In the primeval forest of the scenic spot, there are thousands of plants growing in about 20,000 square kilometers, including the rare Tianliu wood of the Ice 11 period, the big banyan tree of the aging dragon bell, the hard iron power wood, the strange dragon's blood tree, the Meiden wood, etc.

The unique conditions have enabled Xishuangbanna to win the reputation of "Plant Kingdom", "Animal Kingdom", "Peacock Town", "Elephant Paradise" and other charming subtropical scenery.

The rich animal and plant resources and the ancient and rich ethnic customs have made Xishuangbanna a well-known national key nature reserve and scenic spot at home and abroad.

The landscape is dominated by gorgeous and colorful national culture and ethnic customs, and is famous for its beauty and richness.

Laili is nearly 1,300 kilometers away from Xishuangbanna, and if you take a car, it will take almost a day and a night, but Ye Lingtian will definitely not waste time on a boring journey, and after Liang Feiyang and Qi Junpeng got on the shuttle bus to Mangshi, he flew into the air with Liang Xiaoxue, and it took more than half an hour to reach the sky over Jinghong City.

Seeing the endless primeval forest under his feet, Ye Lingtian was also a little worried, and he groaned for a long time before he looked at Liang Xiaoxue on the side, and asked softly, "Have you been to Xishuangbanna before?" Liang Xiaoxue shook her head and said: "No, I am also here for the first time, and it is because I have never been here before that I want to come and see it." ”

Ye Lingtian thought about it for a while, and said helplessly: "Xishuangbanna is too big, and I don't know where to go to play aimlessly, let's go to the city to find a tour guide first."

Jinghong, Dai language means "city of dawn", most of the buildings in the urban area are full of strong Dai village style, the road is lined with tall palm trees and other tropical trees, the whole city gives people a very clean and clean feeling.

Ye Lingtian and Liang Xiaoxue walked directly into a star-rated hotel, and only after opening a suite did they ask the service lady at the front desk about the tour guide, because Ye Lingtian had already opened a room in the hotel, the service lady was also very enthusiastic, and immediately called to help him connect.

However, before the front desk lady could contact him, a middle-aged man in his forties, with a sturdy body, thick eyebrows and big eyes, suddenly appeared next to him, 1 cautiously leaned over and asked, "Are you looking for a tour guide?" Ye Lingtian glanced at the middle-aged man, nodded after a moment of silence and said, "Yes, the two of us want to play in Xishuangbanna, but we don't want to be with those tour groups, so we want to find a guide who is familiar with Xishuangbanna." The middle-aged man glanced at Ye Lingtian, and then said expectantly: "My name is Liao Zhong, I am a local here, I am familiar with all the attractions in Xishuangbanna, and I also know the way to some places where tour groups don't go, or you can invite me, I promise to let you appreciate the real Xishuangbanna style, and you can just look at the salary." Ye Lingtian thought for a while, exchanged a look with Liang Xiaoxue and said, "Okay, please be our guide!"

Liao Zhong grinned innocently and said, "You guys wait a while, I'll go borrow a car." His speed was very fast, Ye Lingtian and Liang Xiaoxue had not finished drinking a cup of * coffee in the rest area, when they saw him hurriedly walking in, and asked with a smile: "Where are you going to go first?" Ye Lingtian glanced up at him and said with a smile: "You are incompetent as a tour guide, why do you have to introduce us to the main attractions of Jinghong first!" Liao Zhong was stunned for a moment, then rubbed his hands, and said with an embarrassed dry smile: "I'm sorry, I forgot that it's the first time you guys are here, the main attractions of this Jinghong are the following, namely Dai Nationality Garden, Manting Park, Ethnic Customs Garden, Xishuangbanna Hot Crop Tropical Plant Huā Hui Garden, Primeval Forest Park, Mengla Wangtian Tree, Olive Dam, Keno Cottage, Wild Elephant Valley, Peacock Lake and so on. "Brother Liao Zhong, when will this year's Songkran Festival start and where will it be held?" Liang Xiaoxue suddenly interjected and asked. ,

Liao Zhong said with a smile: "This year's Songkran Festival has four days to start, as long as it is a Dai people, whether it is in the village or on the street, you can splash water, but the most lively is still in the Dai Garden!"

Liang Xiaoxue tilted her head and thought about it, looked at Ye Lingtian Jiāo and said with a smile: "Why don't you let Brother Liao Zhong arrange it for us, as long as we can come back in four days to participate in the Songkran Festival in the Dai Garden." Ye Lingtian smiled, he didn't care much about these things, this time he came to Xishuangbanna to accompany Liang Xiaoxue to take a look, and now when he saw her say this, he immediately nodded and smiled: "Okay,

That's it, Liao Zhong, where do you say to go first, we will listen to you. ”

Liao Zhong thought for a while and said, "Why don't we go to the Dai Villa in Olive Dam to experience the national customs first?" Ye Lingtian nodded without thinking about it: "Okay, then go to Olive Dam, let's go!" On the way to Olive Dam, Liao Zhong drove the Mitsubishi off-road vehicle he had just borrowed, and at the same time introduced the scenery of Olive Dam and the customs and taboos of the Dai people to Ye Lingtian and Liang Xiaoxue.

Olive Dam is located in the lower reaches of the Lancang River, only 40 kilometers from the city of Jinghong.

The Olive Dam is a small basin of forty or fifty square kilometers with the Lancang River running through the center.

At only 530 meters above sea level, Olive Dam is the lowest place in Xishuangbanna and the hottest place in terms of climate.

However, this hot climate has also brought abundant products to Olive Dam, including coconut, betel nut, banana, mango, lychee, star fruit, pineapple mì, lotus and so on.

People compare the Olive Dam to the tail of a peacock in Kaiping - gorgeous and colorful, and the Olive Dam is covered with beautiful and rich Dai villages, like shiny huā spots adorning the peacock's tail.

No matter which Hanzi you walk into, you'll see a typical Burmese pagoda and a traditional Dai bamboo building.

The stockade is full of iron and knife trees, also called knife trees, this kind of tree is cut and haired, and the more it is cut, the more it is cut. The Dai people pay great attention to the protection of the natural environment, and they plant this kind of iron knife wood tree around Saizi as firewood to protect the local forest resources.

"There's the Olive Dam right up ahead. Liao Zhong stretched out his hand and pointed ahead, and said: "The main people living in this area are basically Dai people, their living habits are different from ours, and when you get here, you have to follow the local customs and do it according to their living habits." They call the man "cat deli" and the woman "sāo deli", the woman is beautiful, they don't say pretty, they say the woman looks sāo. "Huh?" Liang Xiaoxue glanced at Liao Zhong in surprise, she would never have thought of it, "sāo, this not very elegant word will be used by the Dai people to describe a woman as beautiful."

Liao Zhong understood why Liang Xiaoxue exclaimed, and ignored her, glanced at Ye Lingtian and said with a smile: "The Dai people have three particularities when they enter the door, one is to take off two mō and three not to look, one is to take off their shoes when they enter the door, two mō is their lucky pillar, and three do not look at the master's bedroom. The bedroom is not allowed to be peeped into, and the custom of the past stipulates that if the host finds that outsiders are peeping into the master's bedroom, the man must be the master's son-in-law, or go to the master's house to do three years of hard labor, even if it is a female guest, he must go to the master's house for three years. Saying that, Liao Zhong glanced at Liang Xiaoxue a little mysteriously, and continued to Ye Lingtian: "They live in a bamboo building, and they usually live on the second floor, so they have a habit of stabbing the bamboo building here, that is, a cat like you, if you fancy which "sāo deli" can go to poke her bamboo building at night, then you can enjoy it once." When you poke the bamboo building, you have to be careful not to poke the old "sāo deli, there, otherwise it will be troublesome, but I think it is not very convenient for you to come with a "police" cat to be polite!"

Hearing Liao Zhong's words, Liang Xiaoxue's face suddenly turned red, and she glanced at Ye Lingtian shyly and lowered her head slightly.

"The Dai people are inferior to men and women, if they marry men or women, if they give birth to a girl, they will be regarded as treasures, if they give birth to a boy, they will be regarded as losing money, and if a man is married, he will first do three years of hard labor in the woman's house, but like you, who is knowledgeable and educated, he doesn't have to do hard labor, just go to the school to teach for a year and a half. Liao Zhong didn't pay attention to the reaction of the two, and continued to introduce while driving.

"Uh" Ye Lingtian was speechless, why does Liao Zhong always use him as a metaphor Fortunately, after a while, he arrived at a village, and when he saw a car driving in, a large group of men and women wearing Dai costumes immediately rushed out of the village, and they warmly invited Ye Lingtian and a few people to their house as guests. ,

Ye Lingtian remembered Liao Zhong's words, he didn't dare to go to those young women's houses, if he didn't pay attention to the taboo of the Dai people, it would be troublesome.

Glancing at the crowd, he saw an old man standing in front of him on the left who was already over seventy years old with kind eyebrows, Ye Lingtian hurriedly smiled and said, "Grandpa, can you take us to your house to have a look?"

"Guests from afar, welcome to the Dai cottage!" The old man smiled, turned his head to an eighteen or nineteen-year-old man, wearing a red cloth on his head, embroidered with some turbans that several people couldn't understand, wearing red and blue, lù out of the navel costume, looking very watery and beautiful, "sāo's salute, "Yuxiang, bring the three guests home!" "Grandpa, I know!" The "sāo's salute" smiled lightly, lù out two rows of white teeth, and said to Ye Lingtian and the three of them charmingly: "You follow me!" ”

Seeing that Ye Lingtian had already chosen the master's house, the others clapped their palms and smiled and dispersed, but Ye Lingtian was stunned at the moment, several huge black lines had already appeared on his head, he didn't expect to choose and choose, thinking that it would be fine to choose an old man's house, but he never thought that this old man would have such a beautiful granddaughter!

But at this moment, you have already chosen, and you can't regret it, otherwise the master will think that you look down on their family, and then the trouble will be even greater!

glanced at Liang Xiaoxue, but saw her with a bad smile on her face, so she had to laugh dryly, and followed the "sāo salute" stupidly, and walked towards the central part of the village. ！。